Start Jeremiyah Love. Love is projected for 10.5 PPR points vs 7.2 for Kyle Monangai, and faces the 7th-softest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Jeremiyah Love RB · ARI | Kyle Monangai RB · CHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 10.5 | 7.2 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 9.5 | 6.1 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 11.6 | 8.8 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs DAL | vs SEA |
| Opponent vs. position | 7th-softest (24.6 pts/g allowed) | 15th-toughest (20.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 66% carry share (last 3) | 42% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | RB |
| Our call | FLEX · Flex | SIT · Bench |
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Start Jeremiyah Love. Love projects for 10.5 PPR points vs DAL, against 7.2 for Kyle Monangai vs SEA: a 3.3-point edge.
The projection is the average of every source that carries each player this week, and a player listed Out or Doubtful is never the start.
Jeremiyah Love is projected to score more: 10.5 PPR points to 7.2 for Kyle Monangai.
The sources range from 9.5 to 11.6 for Love and from 6.1 to 8.8 for Monangai. Even Monangai's highest projection is below Love's lowest.
Jeremiyah Love is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Love at 9.5 PPR points, against 6.1 for Kyle Monangai.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Jeremiyah Love has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Love at 11.6 PPR points, against 8.8 for Kyle Monangai.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Jeremiyah Love plays DAL and Kyle Monangai plays SEA in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Love faces the 7th-softest defense against RBs and Monangai faces the 15th-toughest defense against RBs, so Jeremiyah Love has the softer matchup.
Each projection already accounts for the opponent, so a soft matchup is a tiebreaker, not a reason to bench the higher projection.
Over his recent games Jeremiyah Love has drawn 66% of his team's carries, and Kyle Monangai 42% of his team's carries.
Jeremiyah Love has the bigger role, and volume is the steadiest thing a projection rests on.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Jeremiyah Love nor Kyle Monangai has an injury designation for Week 8.
Designations change through the week, so check again before kickoff; this page updates with each refresh.
Each figure is the average of the projection sources that carry the player this week: StatChasers, Sleeper, ESPN, numberFire, FFToday and the betting markets (sportsbook player props). Jeremiyah Love is projected by 5 of them and Kyle Monangai by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.